14 Facts About Lorene Scafaria

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Lorene Scafaria was born on May 1,1978 and is an American filmmaker, director, playwright, musician, and former actress.

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Lorene Scafaria is best known for writing and directing the films Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, The Meddler, and Hustlers.

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Lorene Scafaria's father was born in Gioia Tauro in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria.

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Lorene Scafaria first became interested in writing when she began making a book report on a fake book once a month in order to win Pizza Hut gift certificates from her school.

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Lorene Scafaria had a small role in the acclaimed short film Bullet in the Brain, which won awards at festivals and was produced by CJ Follini.

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Lorene Scafaria's writing agent had still yet to find her a job, so she took on more acting roles, appearing in many theater productions in addition to films such as Big Helium Dog and A Million Miles.

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The screenplay was purchased by Revolution Studios; however, after the studio asked the pair to make changes to the script which Lorene Scafaria described as "far less interesting", the project was shelved.

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Lorene Scafaria wrote the Iraq War docudrama Sweet Relief for Paramount Pictures and The Mighty Flynn, a spec script which she set up at Warner Brothers.

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Lorene Scafaria wrote the film Man and Wife, which had Gabriele Muccino attached to direct.

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Lorene Scafaria released her second album, Laughter and Forgetting, in April 2010.

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In 2009, Mandate Pictures bought Lorene Scafaria's script Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, a romantic comedy focusing on a man's quest for a meaningful connection during the apocalypse.

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In 2015, Lorene Scafaria wrote and directed the comedy-drama film The Meddler.

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In 2019, Lorene Scafaria wrote and directed the crime drama film Hustlers, which was based on a 2015 New York magazine article by Jessica Pressler.

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Between 2021 and 2023, Lorene Scafaria directed three episodes of the HBO series Succession.